Hmm... I guess they're pretty much the same thing? At their core, demons and gods are the same as Shadows and Personas, but demons and gods were conceptualized a long long time ago, and exist in the Sea of Souls. When one is summoned to become a Persona, they leave the collective Sea of Souls and enter just one person's— like Joroko's in your personal Sea of Souls now.
[ They're separate things, a "collective unconscious" where things are unspoken and agreed upon by everybody in the world, like the general existence of gods and demons who have power over mankind, where concepts like fate and death and time are immortalized and given form. On the other side, there's the "personal unconscious," one's own mind and thoughts and beliefs, where memory and experiences and personality give rise to a Persona.
Persona lore is complicated and confusing and Ala waves another Waraji around dismissively before adding it to the pike. ]
So, yeah! They're sort of the same, but the bear sorta lives here instead of being summoned. Let's go say hi!
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[ They're separate things, a "collective unconscious" where things are unspoken and agreed upon by everybody in the world, like the general existence of gods and demons who have power over mankind, where concepts like fate and death and time are immortalized and given form. On the other side, there's the "personal unconscious," one's own mind and thoughts and beliefs, where memory and experiences and personality give rise to a Persona.
Persona lore is complicated and confusing and Ala waves another Waraji around dismissively before adding it to the pike. ]
So, yeah! They're sort of the same, but the bear sorta lives here instead of being summoned. Let's go say hi!